Family Theater
1311 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
1311 Market Street,
Philadelphia,
PA
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The Family theatre opened in 1911 and was remodeled in 1931 with William H. Lee as the Architect. Seating after the remodel was 547.
A Kimball theater organ was installed in the Family Theater in 1917.
This is a photo from the Philadelphia Architects & Buildings site. The quality of the photo is not the best, unfortunately. Since Frank Rizzo was running for mayor, as seen in the second floor placard, the shot may be circa early 1970s. The photo is from the Irvin Glazer theater collection:
http://tinyurl.com/yst3vn
The PAB website has another photo.
I remember this theater from the early eighties. The area around Reading Terminal was pretty shabby at that time. It appears that there have been a lot of improvements since.
1986 photo of the Family Theatre.
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This 1911 photo shows the Fairyland Theater at 1311 Market:
http://tinyurl.com/o57mmg
This is the theater building in 1960. Unfortunately the bus is blocking the view of the marquee.
http://tinyurl.com/qmhbvl
That photo is meaningless with the bus blocking the theatre.
LOL
I wonder what the subject of the photo was. Maybe the photographer was trying to a photo of the bus.